Felix Kjellberg, aka PewDiePie, is YouTube’s biggest star, amassing 27 million subscribers and building a brand that pulls in the equivalent of $4 million in ad sales a year, most of it pure profit. ”Pewds,” as he is often called, simply plays games and allows his audience to peer in on his experience and hear random opinions interspersed with odd behavior. The seemingly modest Swede avoids the spotlight, but he decided to share his thoughts on fame and games with the Journal.

The Netherlands have won both of their opening two games of the World Cup, including a 5-1 humiliation of champions Spain. How a nation with roughly half the land mass of Indiana became a powerhouse in international soccer has been variously attributed to the country’s superior coaching setup, its progressive politics and even its low-lying topography, which helped to foster a possession-oriented game. But it may be that what makes the Netherlands such a fearsome soccer opponent is its long history of success in a decidedly less celebrated endeavor: field hockey.

Dutch hockey has brought a lot of innovation and football has learned from it.

Nowhere will the melting away of Iraqi government forces have a more lasting impact than in the contested city of Kirkuk. Kurds, who have long coveted the city as their cultural and political capital against the fierce resistance of Iraq’s government, moved into the city during ISIS’s offensive and are unlikely to leave. The city not only expands their growing statelet in the north, but creates a thorny new confrontation with the central government that’s likely to keep Iraq divided for a long time to come.

To describe the last week as a change is an understatement. Things have turned upside-down.

American Apparel’s controversial founder and CEO, Dov Charney, has weathered years of lawsuits that alleged sexual harassment and abusive behavior in painfully explicit terms. But he reached the end after a group of directors began to doubt his trustworthiness, eventually leading to his dismissal this week. Now a battle is likely at the top of a company, which made a mark on popular culture with its affordable fashions and sexually themed marketing.